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Former MLB player accuses Upstate teen of cyberbullying

Baseball great Curt Schilling is hitting hard against bullies on the internet.

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Updated: 7:03 AM EDT Mar 9, 2015

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. —

Baseball great Curt Schilling is hitting hard against bullies on the Internet, and he's accusing an Upstate teen of being part of the problem.

The former Red Sox pitcher is making national headlines while fighting the issue.

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"Well, listen, this is not the Internet's fault. This is not Twitter's fault or Facebook's fault. These are human beings. These are people at fault,” Schilling said in an interview Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Shilling has been defending his teenage daughter after posting a tweet congratulating her for making a college softball team.

Schilling tracked down about nine of the detractors by Googling their Twitter handles, Facebook and Instagram pages, he told the New York Post.

He says he contacted their schools and employers, getting some of them suspended and even fired.

His attention is now on an Upstate student. A message Schilling posted on Twitter Thursday read:

"How about this? One kid threatening my daughter is a HS Football recruit that goes to @WadeHampton_HS in South Carolina?"

Someone from the school responded from the school’s account, tweeting, "We take issues of harassment very seriously. However, this is not a current @WadeHampton_HS student or athlete."

The person is not a student at Wade Hampton, according to a spokesperson with the Greenville County School District.

The spokesman also pointed out there are two schools in South Carolina named Wade Hampton High School.

He would not elaborate on whether Schilling has the wrong school or if the person went to Wade Hampton in the past.

A post to Schilling's blog goes into great detail identifying the person who posted one of the vulgar tweets as being from Taylors. It also reveals what church the poster goes to, his mother and grandfather's name, even his phone number and the license plate numbers of the family vehicles. The post to Schilling's blog says the information was "all information garnered by Googling his Twitter handle, in less than 20 minutes."

Schilling said, “99 percent of these people don't say the things they say or do the things they do if you know who they are."

An Internet security expert with the Greenville County School District says no one benefits from bullying of any kind.

Rick Floyd says, “But in reality if it's bad enough, they can probably find out where it came from, all the way down to probably where you were when you sent it out."